Johnson v. Dugger’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently April 2001
1 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Lockett v. Ohio · Scharffe v. Perkins · Hitchcock v. Dugger · 103 S. Ct. 247 - Beneficial Finance of Kansas, Inc. v. United States
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“even though the jury override might not have been sustained today, it is the law of the case.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“I agree that we are bound by the law of the case on the jury override issue. However, I believe there was a reasonable basis for the jury's recommendation of life and thus that the court originally erred in sustaining the jury override”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.